"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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> "Mike" wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:18:49 GMT, not_real@xxx.yyy (Beachcomber)
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>>>Did you watch the news accounts of people stranded at airports for
>>>days during the Christmas Holidays, often with the luggage sent to
>>>who-knows-where?
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>>>That, along with the crappy food should inspire the public to rise up
>>>and say "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore".
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>>>Basically, they should refuse to pay for crappy service and boycott
>>>all the bad airlines until they fail and go bankrupt.
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>>>Those that survive and thrive will be the ones that know how to treat
>>>their customers right.
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>> This is the problem. Most people are getting what they paid for.
>> They pay very little for a ticket, and get very little in return.
>> Rediculiously low fares require cutbacks in services. If everyone on
>> the plane paid just a small amount more for their tickets, the
>> airlines would not be searching for services to cut in order to get
>> the books out of the red. However, with most people searching for
>> only the lowest fare, cuts have to be made.
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> And in the real world, you pay a LOT more for a full service airline.
Not necessarily. They'll usually compete on price with everybody else on
any given route. You may pay a small premium but not much. Sometimes
they're even cheaper.
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